Precise 5.7 PAE version (until I change the kernel ) manual frugal install. Needed to use nouveau.noaccel=1 kernel parameter to prevent computer freezeup.
Sound and display working on initial boot.....needed to use SNS for internet. Service pack popup appeared on 2nd occasion of launching PPM....... service pack installed.

Manual frugal to ext3 partition and booting with grub4dos. Acer 243LC laptop.
Can’t believe how well it runs on this 10yr old, ram challenged beastie.
All seems to work exceptionally well OTB - very responsive.

Anyway, with some tweaking, Gnome-mplayer can be made to play DVDs. It has always been a crappy DVD player though, as it doesn't handle the menus on nearly all DVDs very nicely. But, it inherits the limitations of mplayer._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

During development of Lucid Puppy, Gnome Mplayer was worked on, with a lot of troubleshooting and trying to make it work.
It was found that for most hardware, if the video is set to xv by default it will work OK. This setting also had these benefits.
1. it has higher quality
2. the DVD menus work better.

Some hardware will work better if it is set to X11.

Also, other settings in the Edit -> Preferences can be changed to tweak for support of specific hardware capabilities.

The other issue was what graphic driver was being used and what was it's capabilities.

In the end this was the warning note:

Quote:

Possible Issue: If you have no video in gnome-mplayer please click the play icon on the desktop to open gnome-mplayer, then choose Edit -> Preferences, click the drop-down Video Output menu, and change to x11 (from xv). The video is set to xv by default because 1) it has higher quality, and 2) the DVD menus work better.

XineDVD program was added as the specific player for DVD movies._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

My keyboard works in abiword and geany but not to write on the forum. I have not localization package. I have installed firefox 22.0 with my locale from firefox releases.

Edit: I rebooted after activating the box "Keyboard has usb interface" and now the keyboard works on the forum too. My keybord is external to a laptop.Last edited by watchdog on Tue 30 Jul 2013, 08:37; edited 1 time in total

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum